The Budapest producer brings some “punch-drunk ambient techno” to Lee Gamble’s label with the incoming ZZM EP.
In an interview with FACT last year, Lee Gamble explained the name of his new label UIQ as representing an unearthly germ, relating to the hypothetical idea of panspermia (life on earth originating from an extraterrestrial source). Potential interaction with alien life is attached to a friend or foe anxiety, and with this in mind, Gamble noted he would “have to shut [UIQ] down if it’s terrible, or let it go if it’s OK.” Praise was heaped upon the first two outings on the label from N1L and ZULI that sounded fittingly otherworldly with their abstract productions landing somewhere in the black hole of genre indeterminism. Now it appears the response to each record has given Gamble confidence in the merit of his undertaking, or the OK-ness of it at least, as the once single-celled UIQ has been allowed to divide and grow with the emergence of the UIQ Inversions series dedicated solely to Lee Gamble productions.
Chain Kinematics kicks off the new UIQ Inversions series dedicated to Gamble’s own productions.
The producer is back on his Timedance label with a 12″ featuring Lee Gamble on remix duties.
There was quite a buzz around Egypt’s electronic music scene a couple of years ago when John Doran wrote a series of stories for The Quietus about the electro chaabi scene. A documentary film was made, entitled Electro Shaabi, and a cultural exchange program Cairo Calling was coordinated by Rinse FM and the British Council to bring a crew of young Egyptian producers and MCs to London with their distinctive, hyped-up, MC-driven sound. Collaborations ensued with Mumdance, Pinch and others, both in London and Cairo, and although not much has been heard of the results of this project, it was certainly a landmark time for Egyptian electronic music in the international consciousness. Where electro chaabi is one sound that emanates from street level participation in a similar fashion to grime, Cairo is of course a city with many other dimensions to its culture.
Paula Temple, Lee Gamble, Perc and Minor Science take the Italian artist to task on Stroboscopic Artefacts.
The PAN artist will preview his new label endeavour with an evening of programmed music at Café OTO.
Function & Vatican Shadow, Boothroyd, Austin Cesear, Max D and more featured among the week’s best records.
“What you’ve got is a whole… miserable subculture“. Spoken by an anonymous voice, these words are the only ones uttered in the entirety of Lee Gamble’s KOCH. Given the London-based producer’s penchant for revisiting the past, the statement could easily be interpreted as ironic – maybe the clip has been plucked from archival footage in the ’90s, maybe from a news segment extolling the dangers of jungle music.
The UK experimental producer’s next LP will be a double album to be released on PAN.
Stream the PAN artist’s take on “Director Of…” from Ron Morelli’s debut LP Spit.
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Along with the resurgent love of acid house and analogue production, it’s been hard to miss the dirty roll of classic jungle lurking around the edges of more bass-weighted productions of late. Producers such as Tessela have been forthright in their appropriation of amen breaks, snare rushes and icy pads as a means of injecting that unmistakable energy into their productions, while it’s really not that uncommon to hear straight-up house tracks with subtle splashes of the think break in amongst the 4/4 framework.
MUTEK have unveiled the final additions to their 2013 line-up including Lee Gamble, Tokimonsta and Henrik Schwarz.
Say hello to the Deli Twins, otherwise known as Future Times co-founder Max D and L.I.E.S. Records boss Ron Morelli. Read more
Among the frankly intimidating number of releases Bill Kouligas’ PAN imprint have put out this year is a strand of material that seems to recompose familiar dance music forms in unusual ways; Heatsick’s lo-fi demo-track house music made on a basic Casio keyboard, NHK’Koyxen’s incandescent, hyper-processed take on breakbeat and techno, and NHK’s split release with SND that further decimated standardised house music tropes into a shattered prism. UK artist Lee Gamble is another name to add to that list, with Diversions 1994-1996, an album composed entirely from samples taken from old jungle mixtapes. However, unlike the aforementioned artists on PAN, who are imitating and reconstructing established forms with their own set of tools, Gamble uses Diversions as an opportunity to examine the genre itself at a microscopic level; just as everyday objects become alien bodies when examined at the cellular level, so Gamble hones in on jungle by sinking the listener so deep into it that he obscures almost all of its recognisable signifiers.
Lee Gamble’s 10-track album entitled Dutch Tvashar Plumes will see release on Bill Kouligas’ PAN imprint next month.
Berlin-based imprint Pan have offered a peek into their next release, a 10-track offering from Lee Gamble made entirely of samples procured from ’90s jungle cassette tapes – listen to one of the tracks inside.